Photography & videography from an award-winning team
Our production arm is – first and foremost – set up to serve our clients, capturing their trips with personalised after-movies, photo albums and even Netflix-style documentaries.
Our in-house team include award-winning video editors, widely published photographers and project managers that have worked on David Attenborough productions, and are joined by a collective of the world’s best travel shooters.
Outside of our client trips, our photography has been published everywhere from the front page of the New York Times website to the cover of the Financial Times, and our documentaries have premiered at London’s Royal Geographical Society and New York’s Explorer’s Club.
To our knowledge, we’re the first travel company to publish a book that only features images taken on its own trips.
All trip media taken on Cookson Adventures trips
A few words from our Head of Production
In numbers
CLIENT VIDEO EDITS PRODUCED
SHOOTS
CLIENT PHOTO BOOKS PRODUCED
IMAGES CAPTURED
TERABYTES OF MEDIA
IMAGES CATALOGUED
PUBLICATIONS OUR IMAGES HAVE BEEN FEATURED IN, FROM WALL STREET JOURNAL TO CONDÉ NAST TRAVELLER
VIDEO RUSHES CAPTURED
Cookson Adventures takes inspiration from David Attenborough documentaries, providing clients with a team of cinematographers who can create everything from daily film edits that are screened in the lodge or a super yacht’s media room in the evening, to epic reels for clients to share on social media and mini-documentaries on conservation projects they’ve been involved in.
Tailored to your tastes
We’ll take the time to get to know what matters most to you, whether it’s capturing intimate group moments, heroic world-first adventures or a combination of it all. Then, we’ll tailor your take-homes to your tastes, from sizzle reels for social media to to photo books, handmade in the UK.
You’re only there once
The experiences we design are truly once-in-a-lifetime events, especially created for you – they deserve to be captured and looked back on for years to come.
Privacy
Cookson Adventures is built on the privacy of our clients, so our photographers exercise full, unintrusive discretion on shoot and all media is subject to the strictest of privacy standards.
Logistics & hosting
Our shooters are part of the team, on hand to offer any assistance, whether giving expert advice or simply lending a helping hand.
The pressure’s off
Relax, stay in the moment and keep your phone out of your hand, safe in the knowledge that the photography is all taken care of.
Our private client productions
Top shooters
An award-winning network
Alongside our in-house head of photography and videography, whose work has been published everywhere from the Financial Times to Vanity Fair, we have a global network of expert shooters. And, we’ll put together a team to suit your requirements. That could be a portraiture specialist for intimate family moments, an underwater photographer for your dive trip or drone operators to capture hype reels for your social media.
Video edits
Created just for you
From intimate family moments around the campfire and after-movies of your adventure to Netflix-style sports documentaries and sizzle edits of your epic friends’ getaway, we’ll create the edits around your tastes – down to consulting with you on the music you like. We’ve even brought editors along to create daily edits for those looking to share updates on social media or to be shown in your yacht’s cinema room, so you can look back in wonder at the day’s events.
Stills
Of what matters most
We’ll work with you to capture what’s important to you, whether that’s precious time spent between grandchildren and grandparents or those blockbuster shots of your adventures to post online. Alongside delivering digital versions on your own portal, we also create incredible photo books. Designed in house, handmade in the UK and printed by an award-winning photo lab, they serve as a rare, physical memento of your trip.
Documentaries
Both private and public
We’ve pioneered the concept of documentary-style shoots in private travel, with our clients able to take away narrative movies from their trips. Think behind-the-scenes talks with the guides that have put together a world-first wildlife experience for you, creating an Attenborough-style narration of your trip. Or, for an expedition, interviewing your guests to create a sports documentary on how they responded to the challenges they face. Throughout, we draw on the expertise we’ve built up producing public documentaries on the conservation projects our trips have platformed. They’ve been shown at film festivals and premiered at prestigious venues, including New York’s Explorers Club.
Our documentaries
Trailer for our elephant translocation film produced around a client trip
Our documentarian approach
We’ve always integrated conservational and philanthropic elements into our trips, matching our clients with causes close to their heart. This means our guests not only get to go behind the scenes – getting hands on and educating their group or family – but they platform and make a genuine difference to truly impactful projects.
Given Cookson Productions’ film-making capabilities, it came as a natural progression to start documenting these big projects, with the idea to raise awareness around them. They’ve gone on to premiere at the likes of London’s Royal Geographical Society, as well as being shown at film festivals in the UK.
